888 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



AjDparently tolerably common ; it varies somewhat 

 in the colour of the primaries, owing to the greater 

 or less density of the black speckling upon these wings ; 

 in some examples (chiefly females) the, general colour 

 of the primaries, seen without a lens, is sericeous- 

 blackish grey. 



AspiLATES,' Treitschke. 

 71. Asjnlates lacticinia, n. s. 



Primaries above pale creamy stramineous, irrorated 

 with greyish brown ; an oblique pale brown stripe from 

 apex to just beyond the middle of the submedian vein, 

 and a small spot of the same colour at the end of the 

 cell ; secondaries shining white, with cream-coloured 

 fringe; two or three "subapical grey dots; body cream- 

 coloured ;. wings below shining white, costal borders 

 cream-coloured, grey-speckled ; primaries with disco- 

 cellular spot and oblique stripe rather greyer than above ; 

 pectus creamy stramineous ; venter white. Expanse of 

 wings, .28 mm. 



" Valparaiso, in November and December." — T. E. 



A variety of this species occurs in which the primaries 

 are more densely speckled than in the type, and the 

 oblique stripe is recurved towards the costa at its in- 

 ferior extremity, thus forming an unequal V-shaped 

 character, the outer branch being nearly twice the length 

 of the inner. 



The following, included with A. lacticinia, appears to 

 me to be referable to an allied but distinct species : — 



72. Aspilates hivittata, n. s. 



Primaries stramineous, mottled and speckled with 

 grey ; crossed by two widely separated pale greyish 

 brown stripes, converging at inner margin, and, in the 

 male, dotted wdth black upon the veins ; secondaries 

 white, the abdominal border in the male sprinkled with 

 dark grey scales ; an arched discal series of black dots, 

 replaced in the female by a short arched grey stripe; 

 fringe stramineous ; a black disco-cellular dot; body of 

 the male sordid stramineous, of the female whitish 

 primaries -af the male below white, shining, densely 



